Ironically Quotes
154 quotes by 142 authors
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Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology. There is little difference…
— Alan Cooper
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I think sometimes we can use spirituality as a vehicle to go closer to the things that frighten us and sometimes we can use it…
— Jon Foreman
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Halloween was banned in Haddonfield and I think that the basic idea was that if you tried to suppress something, it would only rear its…
— Dennis Etchison
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I have observed several hundred salespeople who were taught to use deceptive practices like 'bait and switch' and encouraged to play negotiation games with customers.…
— Ron Willingham
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The truth is few people “think†big and even fewer “play†big. Why? Because “big†often means big responsibilitie s, big hassles and big problems.…
— T. Harv Eker
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Ironically, gratitude's most powerful mysteries are often revealed when we are struggling in the midst of personal turmoil.
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Throughout this book, we've been evangelizing simplicity, but ironically, the practice of simplicity is not simple. It is easy to build a bulky design by…
— Jakob Nielsen
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Will you have the stamina and inspiration necessary to dream up bigger, better, more original sins and wilder, wetter, more interesting problems? Do you realize…
— Rob Brezsny
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What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive…
— Parker J. Palmer
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Our chronic discomfort with ambiguity - which, ironically, is critical to both our creativity and the richness of our lives - leads us to lock…
— Maria Popova
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The New Atheists are not open or willing to go where the evidence leads, unless that evidence sustains their own naturalistic assumptions. They have covertly…
— Ravi Zacharias
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In order to improve democracy, then, it's necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
— Alain Badiou
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Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are and the less you complain, the more…
— Gretchen Rubin
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Time magazine has selected their person of the year. Guess what, it's President-elect Barack Obama. Yeah, ironically, Ebony magazine announced their person of the year,…
— Conan O'Brien
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And what you need ironically. Will turn out what you want to be. If you just let it.
— Lauryn Hill
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True freedom doesn't lie in the maximization of choice, but, ironically, is most easily found in a life where there is little choice.
— Steve Hagen
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Sometimes we get way too fixated on how powerful sin is and how weak we are. We worry that if we relax for a second,…
— Judah Smith
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Early fear was felt cellularly and was indeed real. Defensive postures were necessary, but defenses generalize cellularly in adulthood and do not expire. It takes…
— David Richo
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It is critical to realize that underlying the extermination of nature is the marginalization of human beings. If we are to save what is wild,…
— Paul Hawken
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If you're avoiding sin and living morally so that God will have to bless you and save you, then you may be looking to Jesus…
— Timothy Keller
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